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    • 1.What are the biggest challenges youth in Africa face after going through youth-specific capacity development initiatives in agriculture? I am pleased for being privilege to express my views on this forum One of the biggest challenge youth in Africa face is the issues on access to LAND. Any farming activity require space(land) to operate be it Crop farming, Livestock, Aquaculture, the first asset to acquired as a farmer is land. Since all agricultural system depends on land, the ownership or access to agricultural lands becomes crucial especially for the youth. Gaining Land in Ghana as a youth for agricultural purpose is a difficult task. One of the challenges face by the youth is to know which land is available for rent because there is no public advertisement about renting lands . most times land owners check the readiness to rent or through familiarity and all this comes with payments of money of which most youth cannot afford. Access to finance through banking system is also challenging as all of them requires collateral in a form of immobile property such as house of which the youth do not have to back up application. Also most agricultural loans, if available are for short term which does not favor crops and ruminants that takes more than 3 years to mature.